CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of cloud
services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and
business applications, today announced availability of Cloudlets,
extensions to Akamai solutions that are designed to speed time to
market for developers and offload infrastructure demand, each
providing a specific and useful functionality that is accessed via
the Akamai Intelligent Platform™.
Instead of relying on resource intensive internal or third-party
IT projects, Cloudlets allow customers to do more with the Akamai
Intelligent Platform, in a way that is self-serviceable,
alleviating the need for further infrastructure investment or the
development of custom tooling. By offloading business logic to one
of the world's most pervasive, performant and scalable delivery
networks, as well as incorporating "click to buy" and "click to
provision and configure" deployment, Cloudlets can offer faster
time to market for advanced functionality while reducing
development, infrastructure, and maintenance costs.
Akamai Cloudlets are being introduced with the availability of
Edge Redirector, Visitor Prioritization and Image Converter. The
company plans to continue to introduce new Cloudlets regularly,
ultimately forming a marketplace of extensions where customers can
choose which capabilities are best suited to help simplify the
development and delivery of their web sites and applications.
One early adopter of Akamai Cloudlets is EL AL Israel Airlines
Ltd. via Akamai partner ITWay Solutions LTD. According to Patrick
Perelsztejn, Web infrastructure & technologies coordinator for
the airline, "We had an immediate need to set up 5,000 redirects to
preserve link equity for SEO, due to our Web site restructuring.
When initially looking for a solution, it appeared there was going
to be no easy and flexible way for us to address our needs. Edge
Redirector was a perfect solution, which helped us to easily manage
this large number of URL redirects and avoid the cost associated
with a custom solution."
The three inaugural Cloudlets include:
Edge Redirector – Edge Redirector is intended to help
customers simplify the management of URL redirects for SEO,
marketing campaigns, or site content and architectural changes by
providing an easy way for both technical and non-technical users to
manage redirect rules and offload strain on IT. By managing large
volumes of redirects on the Akamai Intelligent Platform online
businesses can speed time to market for Web site content or
architectural changes while taking advantage of the performance and
offload benefit of the Akamai Intelligent Platform. Edge Redirector
capabilities include:
- Easy management and offload of 301 and 302 redirects to the
Akamai Intelligent Platform
- Ability to make changes quickly with an intuitive rules based
user interface and included API
- Advanced and basic user roles for both technical and business
users
- Bulk upload redirects via .csv format
Visitor Prioritization – Visitor Prioritization is
designed to provide a user-friendly waiting room experience when
back‑end applications become overloaded due to surges in visitor
traffic, helping to decrease site abandonment when application
capacity becomes scarce. Customers can avoid the cost and
maintenance of building out unnecessary infrastructure to support
spikes in traffic that would be under-utilized during periods of
normal traffic, making more efficient use of existing resources.
The features of Visitor Prioritization include:
- Ability to gain control of traffic accessing data center
resources during traffic surges
- An engaging, branded experience for overflow traffic
- Protection from site outages during high value or maintenance
events
- Preservation of scarce application capacity for valuable
transactions
Image Converter – Image Converter is intended to help
simplify the complexity and overhead associated with creating,
storing and maintaining derivative images when the same image is
used in different Web and mobile experiences across multiple end
user situations and devices. By dynamically manipulating images in
the cloud (cropping, resizing, changing output format and/or output
quality, watermarking, etc.) customers can reduce infrastructure
investment and gain operational efficiencies, decreasing time to
market via web design and development agility, particularly for
sites using responsive web design and RESS. Capabilities associated
with Image Converter include:
- Reduced volume of bytes necessary to deliver images within a
responsive web design experience to various devices
- Dynamic manipulations of images in the cloud, tailoring them to
the specific use case defined by an API command
- Reduced complexity and overhead associated with creating
storing and maintaining libraries of derivative images
"Akamai is well known for our solutions that help our customers
make their web experiences fast, reliable and secure. With the
introduction of Cloudlets, we continue to extend the value our
platform provides to our customers via a new set of capabilities
that are designed to provide a positive impact on the overall user
experience," explained Ravi Maira,
vice president, Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai. "As
important, we are giving our customers these capabilities in a
self-service manner that is easy, convenient and as cost effective
to deploy as possible."
Cloudlets are available to Akamai customers now and can be
accessed, trialed, purchased, and deployed through the Luna Control
Center. For more information on Akamai Cloudlets please visit
http://www.akamai.com/Cloudlets.
About Akamai
Akamai® is the leading
provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing
online content and business applications. At the core of the
Company's solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing
extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security,
visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of
connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer
demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To
learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation
in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com or
blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on Twitter.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act
This release contains information about future expectations, plans
and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute
forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor
provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995, including statements about offering new Cloudlets in the
future. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated
by these forward-looking statements as a result of various
important factors including, but not limited to, failure of Akamai
services to operate as expected or to address intended market
needs, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other
factors that are discussed in Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K,
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically
filed with the SEC.
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